Discover the credits
Which jurisdictions offer relevant credits, rebates, and grants — with minimum spend, eligible expenses, caps, and deadlines.
Tax incentive intelligence · slate to production
Before you choose where to shoot, find out where the money is.
Film Forge researches and compares film tax credits, rebates, grants, and incentives across jurisdictions — based on your scenes, budget, cast, and crew — before you lock a location. Then it tracks the records needed to support the claim, from pre-production through post.
Licensed per film · by approval only — an account manager will contact you.
Incentive comparison
Desert feature · $1.8M budget
JurisdictionRateEst. credit
New Mexico
Best fit · 100% terrain
35%
$630k
Ontario
needs 85% local crew
45%
$810k
Louisiana
residency uplift
40%
$720k
Georgia
no cap · easy permits
30%
$540k
Recommended: New Mexico. Full terrain match and straightforward permitting — ~$630k projected credit, refined as spend is tracked.
Research
Find every credit, rebate, and grant your film may qualify for.
Compare
Side-by-side jurisdictions by rate, spend rules, fit, and net benefit.
Track
Log qualifying spend, participation, documents, and approvals as you go.
Prove
Private, verifiable records powered by NotaryHash by SmartLedger.
One platform · script to cap table
The incentive is the front door. The whole production runs inside.
Film Forge is the operating system for a production — every phase from first idea to investor recoupment. An AI layer accelerates the creative work; a blockchain layer makes every financial and legal action permanently verifiable.
Develop
AI ideation, a queryable World Bible, concept art, and a version-controlled script lock.
Plan
Script breakdown into every element, scheduling, casting from the World Bible, budget & risk.
Finance
Incentives, §181, cap table, and a recoupment waterfall that closes the loop to investors.
Deliver
Cut editing, audience testing, persona-tailored marketing, and a deal tracker with royalties.
Prove
On-chain provenance (HACPS), IP registration, investor reports, and a Studio API.
Tax incentive intelligence
Location is a financial decision. Make it with the numbers.
The same scene can be shot in many places — each with a different incentive rate, minimum spend, local-hire rule, cap, deadline, and documentation standard. Film Forge surfaces all of it early, before you commit money, cast, or crew.
Scene-to-incentive matching
Match a script's terrain — mountains, beaches, city, historic, studio — to regions that satisfy both the shot and the strategy.
Side-by-side comparison
Compare estimated credit, local-hire rules, timelines, risk, and net production benefit — ranked, not scattered across tabs.
It helps you ask a better question — not just “Where can we shoot this?” but “Where can we shoot this to support the vision, reduce net cost, improve eligibility, and strengthen our documentation trail?”
From research to audit-ready records
The strategy doesn't stop at a report. It becomes the workflow.
Once you pick a location, Film Forge tracks whether you're actually building the records that support the claim — from day one.
Track qualifying activity
Local spend, vendor invoices, actor workdays, crew hours, residency, location use — logged and categorized.
Real-time compliance
Minimum-spend, local-hire, and missing-document checks stay green as you go — no end-of-shoot surprises.
AI + investor reporting
Plain-English incentive guidance, credit projections, and investor updates — grounded in your real numbers.
Powered by NotaryHash
Private proof for records that must be believed years later.
Contracts, invoices, approvals, and participation records are hashed and signed locally, then anchored to the SmartLedger Blockchain. The original file never leaves your workspace — only the hash, signature, and public key. Anyone can verify a proof independently, with no account.
Privacy-preserving
Only the hash is anchored — never the document itself.
SmartLedger Blockchain
Permanent, independently verifiable proof of existence.
Post-quantum ready
Classical today; ML-DSA / SLH-DSA for decades of credibility.
Merkle batching
Anchor many daily records under one transaction, cheaply.
Per-film licensing
One film. One licensed workspace. One verified record.
For every film on your slate, a secure workspace — separate accounts, incentive research, documents, proofs, and audit history.
Request access →- ✓Incentive research & comparison
- ✓Scene-to-incentive matching
- ✓Role-based accounts
- ✓Qualified-spend tracking
- ✓Real-time compliance
- ✓Participation credentials
- ✓Investor reporting
- ✓NotaryHash certificates
Find the smartest place to produce your next film.
Film Forge is tax incentive intelligence plus production recordkeeping for films moving from slate to production. Extended to approved account holders — request access and an account manager will reach out.